I think that there is more to farm stands and farmers markets than meets the eye. Many people buy to get fresh or organic or something like that. My wife chooses to shop just at the big store where most of the food comes from 2000 miles away. It is difficult to pick up a local or regional farming publication and not see an article that addresses in some way efforts towards Community Supported Agriculture or farm stands or farmers market as part of the total picture necessary for the family farm to make a "go" of it. Many people just want to support their local business and neighbor. I tend towards local businesses because they are community and where would we be if we we all had to work for the big companies that pay as little as they can once the small ones are gone. Here in the US large vegetable farms are so mechanized that they even PACKAGE on machines out in the field. Hundreds of dairy farms in my state are now just a few dozen. Sure the price of milk is up right now but inputs for 2011 are up 10.3%. It's very tough to make a living at any farming when competing against the huge factory farms. Rural municipalities almost always have lower tax rates and most people prefer rural or suburban areas to raise families. So where will we be when all the farm land is growing houses and roads and schools, when all the farms have sold out? maybe we will wish that we had given local agriculture a little more support.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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